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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24700330, member: 128351&quot;]These drachms were surely not minted in Bostra: the Bostra mint started under Antoninus Pius and issued bronze civic coinage only. These &quot;Arabia drachms&quot; were first believed minted in Caesarea of Cappadocia, and later Arie Kindler thought they were minted in Bostra. But that&#039;s not more likely. First because most of these drachms have been found in South Jordan, in the West Bank and in Saudi Arabia, but relatively few in the Bostra region; and because the style is very close to the Antioch mint style. Nobody could explain why suddenly Bostra would have opened a mint for silver coinage! The present doxa is that these Arabia drachms were minted in Antioch, while the Arabia &quot;tridrachms&quot; (which were in fact reduced tetradrachms according to the Nabataean standard), and later the Trajanic &quot;camel-drachms&quot;, were minted in Rome, all for circulation in Arabia only. Another more cautious attribution is &quot;Trajan&#039;s Arabian mint&quot;, with no precise localization.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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